Mr. Speaker, I listened with interest to the member's comments. It is fair to summarize by indicating that members of the Reform Party will continue to raise spectres, rumours, innuendo and tax revolts. They will continue to say they are going to do many good things.
However, the important point is that Reform Party members have been tinkering around the edges. They have ignored and failed to explain to Canadians how they are going to deal with their $15 billion cut in social programs. They have not articulated a specific initiative by which they would deal with social programs. They have not told Canadians the truth about what they really have planned for Canada.
We have a source for what Reform Party members plan. I want to give an example. It is articulated in their minority report included in the Standing Committee on Human Resources Development report that was tabled last Monday. I refer the House to their first three recommendations.
The first concerns the guaranteed income supplement in which 40 per cent of seniors participate. They are recommending increasing the age of eligibility. On old age security they are saying: "Eliminate old age security for seniors who have above average incomes". On the Canada pension plan they are recommending raising the retirement age, raising the age of eligibility.
It is fairly clear that the true agenda of members of the Reform Party is slash and burn. If they do not believe our seniors represent a significant portion of the poor in our country they have lost touch with Canadians.